Top Senior Software Engineer Jobs in Des Moines, IA

The role involves leading application performance improvements across multiple platforms, focusing on measurable metrics and driving engineering standards and workflow optimization, using both hands-on coding and strategic influence.

Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable full‑stack systems. Contribute to API and architecture design, write testable code, debug complex issues, improve performance, automate deployments, and mentor junior engineers while collaborating with cross‑functional teams.

Design, implement, and operate large-scale distributed storage systems ensuring data durability, availability, and performance. Build and maintain replication, erasure coding, and lifecycle systems; write high-quality Go/Rust/C++ code; participate in on-call rotations; troubleshoot production incidents; collaborate with networking, hardware, and capacity teams; lead scoped projects and drive infrastructure evolution.

As a Billing & Analytics Software Engineer, you'll design and maintain the billing pipeline, integrate billing systems, and develop customer-facing analytics dashboards to support revenue recognition and operational observability.

Design and re-architect the Identity systems at Dropbox to support multi-product capabilities, mentor junior engineers, and ensure software excellence.

The Software Engineer will enhance developer experience at Benchling by building production release tooling, improve workflows, and collaborate with teams to scale processes. Responsibilities include developing efficient development tools and championing engineering patterns.

Manage clusters, develop with Golang, provision infrastructure with Terraform, and enhance performance of the platform handling untrusted code.

Design and implement CIAM backend services for authentication and authorization. Integrate identity systems, manage secure flows, and automate infrastructure.

Seeking a Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer to design, develop, and deliver quality backend services and APIs using Go, with emphasis on Kubernetes and cloud services.

As a Fullstack Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable frontend and backend systems while collaborating across teams.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll implement collaboration features, support team architecture, work across tech stacks, and improve developer experience.

The role involves providing technical leadership, hands-on execution, and cross-team influence in software engineering, focusing on solutions for scaling and performance challenges while using AI tools.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll design, develop, and maintain full-stack applications, utilizing TypeScript and modern frameworks while collaborating cross-functionally to enhance user experience and performance.

Build and operate scalable backend services and integrations for chat, voice, and agent-assisted support. Improve reliability, performance, and AI-driven capabilities; collaborate across product, design, AI, and operations; mentor engineers and lead technical design and architecture.

Build and maintain full-stack features for Saga, Deepgram's voice OS. Develop backend services (Node.js, Socket.IO, DynamoDB, AWS Amplify), frontend interfaces (TypeScript, React, Next.js), and scalable REST/GraphQL APIs. Participate in architecture, code reviews, performance optimization, and translate product requirements into iterative deliverables.

Design and deliver scalable, secure, and maintainable software systems. Contribute to architecture, build CI/CD pipelines, design distributed systems and APIs, mentor engineers, collaborate with product and design, and improve observability, performance, and operational reliability across teams.

Build, operate, and extend data platform and application-layer services enabling secure, self-service data applications at scale. Implement provisioning, CI/CD, access control, integrations, observability, automation, and incident response while contributing to semantic layer and AI-ready tooling roadmaps.

Lead design and build of scalable backend systems and data platforms; own architecture and production deployments; improve reliability, performance, and observability; mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, Data Science, SRE, and Security.

Build and own Eve's marketing site and GTM engineering stack: integrate and optimize external tools, design AI agents for sales and marketing, implement webhooks and middleware to sync product/CRM data, and create programmatic campaigns and internal tools in partnership with Marketing, Sales, RevOps, and Product to drive growth and automation.

As a Senior Software Engineer in Trust & Safety, you'll analyze threats, design systems for abuse detection, and collaborate with teams to implement scalable defenses.

Build a high-performance, low-latency Rust backend and core AI platform for an AI-native trading experience. Implement streaming responses, tool orchestration, caching, secure APIs (auth, rate limits, auditing, tracing), and safe trading action infrastructure (previews, confirmations, idempotency, audit logs). Partner with product and frontend to enable AI-native UX and translate business domain requirements into secure, resilient platform primitives.

Lead architecture and implementation of a scalable data lakehouse and streaming platform. Define technical strategy, build resilient systems, optimize performance, mentor engineers, and partner across teams to enable analytics and ML use cases using modern data platform technologies.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead the development of payment systems, oversee key subsystems, mentor engineers, and ensure high-quality code and architectural standards while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

This role involves leading web platform initiatives, mentoring senior engineers, architecting web applications, and implementing technical strategies for improved performance.

The Senior Software Engineer will lead and support a team in developing reliable and scalable backend systems, collaborating on product development, and improving infrastructure for secure communication between services.